Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Washington Post: 50 Notable Works of Fiction from 2025
Pitchfork: The 50 Best Albums of 2025
New York Times: 100 Notable Books of 2025
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Henry I. Schvey

Blue Song
- 20 Favorite New Books of 2021: St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
20 Best Albums of 2012 L Magazine
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Top 100 Albums of 2012 Austin Town Hall
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Best Books for Adults 2025 New York Public Library
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 50 Albums of 2012 Fly
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
50 Notable Works of Fiction from 2025 Washington Post

Trending Works

Fucktoys Annapurna Sriram
Notes on Blindness Peter Middleton and James Spinney
Stolen: Surviving St. Michael's
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
A Very English Scandal
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
On the Calculation of Volume Solvej Balle
Left-Handed Girl Shih-Ching Tsou
Urchin Harris Dickinson
Twin Peaks (Music from the Limited Event Series) various artists
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous Ocean Vuong
Interview with the Vampire
The Furrows Namwali Serpell
Where Everybody Knows Your Name with Ted Danson and Woody Harrelson (sometimes)

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